Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Saadi

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

Virgil

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

30.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.