Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gesser

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

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

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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

41.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah