Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Propertius, Sextus

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

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

Augustine, St.

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Horace

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.