Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Seneca

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Warren, Earl

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

Wells, H.G.

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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Homer

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Aesop

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

Saadi

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

40.

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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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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