Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bacon, Francis

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Aesop

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Benson, Taylor

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Augustine, St.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ward, William A.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.