Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gesser

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Bennet, Arnold

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

Horace

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Seneca

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

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Warren, Earl

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Weltman, Phil

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Saadi

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Brown, Les

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Gallagher, Robert C.