Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wells, H.G.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Heraclitus

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Brown, Les

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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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 would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Every burden is a blessing.