Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Seneca

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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 would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sheehan, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

Landers, Ann

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Virgil

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Aesop

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell