Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Bible

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Bennet, Arnold

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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 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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Chinese