Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Bible

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

James, William

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Homer

17.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

18.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

19.

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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

25.

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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

27.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

28.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

30.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

33.

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

Devito, Danny

34.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

35.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

36.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

37.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

44.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heraclitus

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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.