Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Woolf, Virginia

Smiles, Samuel

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Virgil

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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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 it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bible

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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''

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

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy