Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Seneca

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

10.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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.

12.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

15.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Bible

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gesser

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Horace

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

Brown, Les

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Saadi