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

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Qur'an

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

12.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

James, William

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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

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

23.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

25.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

28.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Homer

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

33.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

35.

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

36.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

38.

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

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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

47.

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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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Seneca