Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Adversity

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Seneca

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Landers, Ann

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Horace

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

Johnson

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

40.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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