Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Sting

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

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

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

James, William

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

10.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

11.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Benson, Taylor

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

27.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

28.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

29.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

30.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

31.

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

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

Horace

33.

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Bible

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

43.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.