Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

James, William

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

12.

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

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

Horace

14.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

15.

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

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

18.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

20.

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

21.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

22.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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.

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

31.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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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

35.

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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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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''

39.

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

Benson, Taylor

41.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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.

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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