Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Russell, Rosalind

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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Sting

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

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

Heraclitus

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Keats, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Devito, Danny

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

Shain, Merle

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aesop

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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