Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Sting

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

Horace

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

Homer

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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 need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Bible

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Gesser

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

32.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Shain, Merle

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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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 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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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

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

Augustine, St.

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