Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Seneca

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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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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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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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

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Holtz, Lou

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Saadi

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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