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

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

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Horace

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Seneca

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Walton, Sam

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

10.

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

Gesser

11.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

12.

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

13.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

14.

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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Aesop

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Wells, H.G.

29.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

30.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

31.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Bacon, Francis

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

39.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

40.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

41.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

45.

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

46.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

50.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath