Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

- Rogers, James

Best Quotes about Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Aesop

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

Bennet, Arnold

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals 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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

James, William

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Horace

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Homer

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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