Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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)

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

Wells, H.G.

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

32.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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

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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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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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

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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