Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Heraclitus

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Brown, Les

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Saadi

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Billings, Josh

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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]

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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 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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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.

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