Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schweitzer, Albert

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Johnson, Samuel

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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.

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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Gesser

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Devito, Danny

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

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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Sheehan, George

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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