Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Aesop

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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)

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

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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Virgil

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

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Seneca

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.