Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Qur'an

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Bible

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Devito, Danny

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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

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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

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

Talmud, The