Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Wells, H.G.

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.

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

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

Rogers, James

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

James, William

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Horace

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Homer

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

20.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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

30.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Gesser

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

Horace

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

Saadi

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington