Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Virgil

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

Gesser

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Richter, Jean Paul

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Saadi

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Augustine, St.

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Devito, Danny

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, William

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

44.

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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.