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

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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

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.

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

Jung, Carl

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

10.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

21.

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

Homer

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, Maori

28.

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

Aesop

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Virgil

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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 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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

38.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

39.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

43.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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.