Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Landers, Ann

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

Saadi

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Wells, H.G.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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

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

Gesser

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Homer

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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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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