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

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

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

Talmud, The

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Bible

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Aesop

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Seneca

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

Schmidt, Walt

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

22.

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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

26.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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.

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

32.

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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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

41.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William