Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Rogers, James

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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

30.

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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Augustine, St.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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