Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Aesop

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

Zwanzig, Carl

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Saadi

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shain, Merle

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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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.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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