Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Rogers, James

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

Bacon, Francis

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Aesop

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

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

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

Heraclitus

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.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Bible

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Shain, Merle

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Propertius, Sextus

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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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