Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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''

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Hazlitt, William

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Horace

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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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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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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Brown, Les

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ward, William A.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

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

Homer

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.