Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Sting

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gesser

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

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

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

10.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

11.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

12.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

13.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Brown, Les

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

30.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Horace

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

40.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Holtz, Lou