Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Heraclitus

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Virgil

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

26.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Warren, Earl

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Homer

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus