Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Jung, Carl

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

Shain, Merle

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Seneca

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

12.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

15.

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.

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

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

19.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

20.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Neal, John

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

31.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

34.

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

35.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

40.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

41.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Heraclitus

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

45.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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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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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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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