Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Augustine, St.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Horace

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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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

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Saadi

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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