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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
- Chambers, Oswald
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
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.

2.
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

3.
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

4.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Ash, Mary Kay

5.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder

6.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Johnson

7.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

8.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

9.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

10.
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

11.
Every burden is a blessing.
Schuller, Robert H.

12.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

13.
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

14.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Coppola, Francis Ford

15.
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

16.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

17.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Dickinson, Emily

18.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

19.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

20.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

21.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

22.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Horton, Doug

23.
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

24.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca

26.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

27.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

28.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Bible

29.
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

30.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.
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

32.
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

33.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Cady, Emilie

34.
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

35.
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)

36.
The proof of gold is fire...
Franklin, Benjamin

37.
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.

38.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

39.
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.

40.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.

41.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Dune, Frank Herbert

42.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Gesser

43.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward

44.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward

45.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

46.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.

47.
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

48.
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

49.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Schwab, Charles M.

50.
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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