Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Bennet, Arnold

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Aesop

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

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Landers, Ann

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Augustine, St.

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Ward, William A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Talmud, The