Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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''

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Rogers, James

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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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Devito, Danny

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

Augustine, St.

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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

39.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Seneca

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Jung, Carl

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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