Motivational Quotes

Adversity

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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''

10.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

12.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Gesser

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Homer

31.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

32.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

40.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.