Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Brown, Les

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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