Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Keats, John

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

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

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Seneca

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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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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Benson, Taylor

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Landers, Ann

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.