Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Saadi

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

Devito, Danny

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''

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

Sheehan, George

10.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Heraclitus

18.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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

25.

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

26.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

27.

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

28.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

29.

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

Brown, Les

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

31.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

32.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

35.

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 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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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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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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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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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

43.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

44.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them