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

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

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

Landers, Ann

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Brown, Les

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

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Saadi

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Homer

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Sting

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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

29.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

32.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

33.

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''

34.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aesop

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them