Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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)

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

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Saadi

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Virgil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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