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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
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

2.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

3.
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

4.
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, SĀ°ren

5.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

6.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

7.
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

8.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

9.
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

10.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon

11.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Schuller, Robert H.

12.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

13.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent

14.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca

15.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

17.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Wells, H.G.

18.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian

19.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Casey, M Kathleen

20.
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.

21.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Scott, Sir Walter

22.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Johnson, Samuel

23.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Coppola, Francis Ford

24.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Bryant, William C.

25.
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

26.
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''

27.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Gibran, Kahlil

28.
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

29.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann

30.
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

31.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Johnson

32.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.
Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.
Mandino, Og

34.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

35.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Colton, Charles Caleb

36.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Leonard, George

37.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward

39.
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

40.
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

41.
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy

42.
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
Robert, Cavett

43.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul

44.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.

45.
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.

46.
Things were bad but now they are OK.
Seymour, Harold J.

47.
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

48.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus

49.
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

50.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl


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