Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Qur'an

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Saadi

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

Gesser

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Rogers, James

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Homer

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bible

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.