Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bible

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Maori

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Seneca

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Ward, William A.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Benson, Taylor

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Virgil

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Heraclitus

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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