Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Adversity

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Gesser

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

James, William

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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 didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Proverb, Chinese

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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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

33.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

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

39.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

40.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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

45.

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

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

48.

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

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.