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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
- Keats, John
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

2.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

3.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca

4.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace

5.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace

6.
If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
Sheehan, George

7.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Horton, Doug

8.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

9.
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

10.
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

11.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

12.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese

13.
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

14.
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

15.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann

16.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Frankl, Viktor E.

17.
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

18.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.
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

20.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Hale, Edward Everett

21.
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

22.
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

23.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

24.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Casey, M Kathleen

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

29.
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

30.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.

31.
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.

32.
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Kempis, Thomas

33.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Dickinson, Emily

34.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus

35.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Scott, Sir Walter

36.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

37.
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.

38.
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Chambers, Oswald

39.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt

40.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Paine, Thomas

41.
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

42.
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''

43.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Tagore, Rabindranath

45.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore

46.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Johnson, Samuel

47.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Hazlitt, William

48.
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Movie, Apollo 13

49.
Every burden is a blessing.
Schuller, Robert H.

50.
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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