Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Talmud, The

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

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Heraclitus

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Aesop

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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