Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Woolf, Virginia

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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.

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.

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

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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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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 man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Holtz, Lou

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.