Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Brown, Les

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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 is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Virgil

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

19.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

20.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

30.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Seneca

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Saadi

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Homer

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

43.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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

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

Talmud, The

47.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

50.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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