Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Seneca

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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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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 is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Weltman, Phil

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Gesser

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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

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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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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 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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward