Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Adversity

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aesop

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Shain, Merle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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

Horace

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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]

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