Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gesser

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

10.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Benson, Taylor

13.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Proverb, Maori

19.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Seneca

21.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

25.

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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

27.

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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

33.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

34.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Keats, John

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Rogers, James

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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

47.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

48.

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

49.

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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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.