Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Bible

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

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

Virgil

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Landers, Ann

30.

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

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

33.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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