Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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)

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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Heraclitus

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Benson, Taylor

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill