Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, James

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

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

Horace

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Weltman, Phil

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

12.

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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Horace

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Landers, Ann

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy