Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ziglar, Zig

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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)

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

James, William

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Virgil

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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