Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Seneca

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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 say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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

Horace

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

29.

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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Homer

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an