Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Heraclitus

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Seneca

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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

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gesser

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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

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

21.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

29.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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 worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Horace