Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Adversity

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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

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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Shain, Merle

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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.

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

Aesop

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich