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

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.

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

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Seneca

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Horace

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Seneca

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Devito, Danny

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Aesop

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug