Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

10.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

11.

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

12.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Horace

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

26.

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

Homer

27.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

32.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

39.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

45.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

48.

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

Landers, Ann

49.

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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.