Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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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

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

Heraclitus

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