Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gesser

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Johnson

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

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

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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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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''

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

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Sheehan, George

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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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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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

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Proverb, Maori

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl