Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Homer

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.

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.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horace

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

Brown, Les

11.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Wells, H.G.

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

19.

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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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 truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to 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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas