Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Sheehan, George

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

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

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

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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)

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

Heraclitus

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Gesser

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.