Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Heraclitus

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Landers, Ann

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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