Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Homer

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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

Gesser

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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

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

Virgil

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Bacon, Francis

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jung, Carl