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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Virgil

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch