Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Qur'an

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

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

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rogers, James

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

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

Horace

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Homer

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Seneca

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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]

Bible

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Ward, William A.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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