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

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

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

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

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)

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

17.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

33.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Talmud, The

40.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Augustine, St.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques