Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Barclay, H.K.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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

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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Heraclitus

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth