Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Propertius, Sextus

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Maori

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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 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.

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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

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

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Augustine, St.

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gesser

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

Aesop

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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