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

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Johnson

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Bible

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

James, William

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Schmidt, Walt

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Saadi

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

Talmud, The

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

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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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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Virgil