Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Rogers, James

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

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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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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Holtz, Lou

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Devito, Danny

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les