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

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maltz, Maxwell

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Heraclitus

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Seneca

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

Aesop

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Talmud, The

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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 have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne