Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Adversity

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Seneca

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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

Horace