Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

- Collins, Kitty O'neill

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Seneca

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

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

Seneca

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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

Gesser

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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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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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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.

Sting

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virgil

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Augustine, St.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert