Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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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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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Heraclitus

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Augustine, St.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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''

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee