Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

- Avon

Best Quotes about Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

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.

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

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Saadi

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

Seneca

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Seneca

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

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

Gesser

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Bible

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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