Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Adversity

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Gesser

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Proverb, Maori

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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

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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Heraclitus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

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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

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May