Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Bible

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shain, Merle

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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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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Sheehan, George

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

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.