Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Saadi

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

Seneca

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Rogers, James

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.

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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''

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

Warren, Earl

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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 had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth