Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace