Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

- Hoffman, Dustin

Best Quotes about Adversity

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Neal, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brown, Les

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Sheehan, George

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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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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Walton, Sam

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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