Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

- Swahili Warrior Song

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Shain, Merle

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heraclitus

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

22.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Maori

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Virgil

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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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