Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

- Buckham, James

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Shain, Merle

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Seneca

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Gesser

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Ward, William A.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Bible

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Buckham, James

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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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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

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Wells, H.G.