Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Sting

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

10.

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

Warren, Earl

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Maori

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

26.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

29.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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 it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca