Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Aesop

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Holtz, Lou

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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

Virgil

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Bennet, Arnold