Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Talmud, The

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

Hill, Napoleon

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

17.

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

Shain, Merle

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

Augustine, St.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

20.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

21.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

24.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

33.

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

Virgil

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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

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

Saadi

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Warren, Earl

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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 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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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

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

Proverb, Maori