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

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

Heraclitus

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bible

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Virgil

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Horace

12.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

13.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Homer

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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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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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

31.

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

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aesop

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

41.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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.

44.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

45.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Benson, Taylor

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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