Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Shain, Merle

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Qur'an

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Seneca

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

Gesser

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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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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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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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 reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Holtz, Lou