Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Adversity

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

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

Heraclitus

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Devito, Danny

10.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

11.

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

Aesop

12.

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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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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.

17.

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

Russell, Rosalind

18.

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

Virgil

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

25.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Sting

28.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

30.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

33.

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

Saadi

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

37.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

38.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

43.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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