Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Neal, John

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

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

Walton, Sam

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Landers, Ann

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Seneca

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Seneca

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Horace

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Augustine, St.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Bible

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Rogers, James

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch