Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Neal, John

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

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

15.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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.

17.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

18.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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''

29.

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

Virgil

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth