Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

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

Neal, John

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Walton, Sam

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Landers, Ann

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Talmud, The

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian