Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Homer

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''

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

Russell, Rosalind

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

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

Johnson

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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)

11.

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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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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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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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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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aesop

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

24.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

32.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

36.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

42.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Virgil

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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