Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kempis, Thomas

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Devito, Danny

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

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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 hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Aesop

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Billings, Josh