Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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]

Bible

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Aesop

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs 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 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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward