Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

Horace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Aesop

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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

12.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Horace

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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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

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Saadi

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

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis