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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kempis, Thomas

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Saadi

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Wells, H.G.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Seneca

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

Benson, Taylor

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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