Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Saadi

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Homer

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Talmud, The

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Virgil