Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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''

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Seneca

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Virgil

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Landers, Ann

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

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

Homer

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

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie