Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Adversity

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Johnson

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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

Rogers, James

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Saadi

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Gesser

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

Horace

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aesop

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian