Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

- Zwanzig, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Seneca

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Landers, Ann

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Saadi

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

21.

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

Virgil

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

26.

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

27.

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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Gesser

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Warren, Earl