Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Holtz, Lou

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Virgil

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Shain, Merle

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

James, William

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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 heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

41.

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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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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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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