Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Homer

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Hazlitt, William

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Devito, Danny

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]

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

15.

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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

James, William

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Aesop

34.

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

39.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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