Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Bible

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Warren, Earl

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

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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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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

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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

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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