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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Aesop

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

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Sheehan, George

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Bible

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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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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Virgil

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Talmud, The

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.