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

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Qur'an

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Devito, Danny

11.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

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

Bible

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

18.

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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Homer

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

28.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Landers, Ann

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

44.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.