Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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.

11.

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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

14.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

15.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

22.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

36.

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

37.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

38.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Virgil

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

Aesop

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

45.

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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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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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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald