Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Sting

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Shain, Merle

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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

11.

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

Sting

12.

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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

15.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Heraclitus

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

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

33.

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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

36.

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.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Augustine, St.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Warren, Earl

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.