Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Ward, William A.

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

Augustine, St.

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

22.

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

24.

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

Hazlitt, William

25.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Gesser

28.

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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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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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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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.

32.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

34.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

35.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wells, H.G.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Proverb, Maori

43.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

44.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

45.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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