Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Bible

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

Walton, Sam

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

10.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

11.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Homer

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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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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

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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

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Benson, Taylor

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.