Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

10.

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

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

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

17.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

18.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Propertius, Sextus

20.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

21.

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

Brown, Les

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Horace

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Seneca

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

46.

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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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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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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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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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