Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Seneca

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

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Ward, William A.

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

Wells, H.G.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Heraclitus

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Aesop

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.