Motivational Quotes

Adversity

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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]

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Rogers, James

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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

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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]

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Virgil

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Landers, Ann

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Homer