Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Ward, William A.

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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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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 adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

13.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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.