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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Johnson

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

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

Horace

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saadi

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Devito, Danny

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Heraclitus

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca