Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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.

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Saadi

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Holtz, Lou

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

James, William

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Shain, Merle

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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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