Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Benson, Taylor

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Heraclitus

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.