Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hazlitt, William

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Aesop

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

12.

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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

14.

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

Proverb, Maori

15.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

22.

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

Sting

23.

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

Warren, Earl

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

26.

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

Sheehan, George

27.

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

Walton, Sam

28.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

31.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

32.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

33.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

39.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

40.

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

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl