Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hazlitt, William

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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 has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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

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

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca