Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Keats, John

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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

Saadi

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Horace

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

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Sheehan, George