Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, Maori

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Heraclitus

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Holtz, Lou

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Homer

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Aesop

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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