Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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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 sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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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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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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gesser

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George