Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on 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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Seneca

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Virgil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch