Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

Warren, Earl

11.

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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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

19.

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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

21.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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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

30.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

35.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

42.

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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Neal, John