Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ward, William A.

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

Johnson

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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.

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Brown, Les

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Heraclitus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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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]