Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

- Gesser

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Seneca

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

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

Talmud, The

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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 will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Sting

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Homer

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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

Virgil

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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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.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert