Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Heraclitus

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

Saadi

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Aesop

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

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

Seneca

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

43.

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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold