Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Adversity

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Benson, Taylor

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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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.

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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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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese