Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Proverb, Maori

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brown, Les

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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

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

Gesser

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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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Horace

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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