Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aesop

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

21.

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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horace

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Seneca

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Talmud, The

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

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

Devito, Danny

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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