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What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Frankl, Viktor E.
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Zwanzig, Carl

2.
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Movie, Apollo 13

3.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

4.
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

5.
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

6.
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Ward, William A.

7.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Bennet, Arnold

8.
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

9.
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

10.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Colton, Charles Caleb

12.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

13.
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

14.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Collier, Robert

15.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Qur'an

16.
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

17.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Proverb, Maori

18.
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

19.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Talmud, The

20.
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

21.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Burata, Mario

22.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca

23.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Gallagher, Robert C.

24.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting

25.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Schweitzer, Albert

26.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James

27.
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''

28.
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

29.
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

30.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus

31.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian

32.
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

33.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Frankl, Viktor E.

34.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Irving, Washington

35.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul

36.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

38.
Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

39.
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

40.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Cady, Emilie

41.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam

42.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Weltman, Phil

43.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John

44.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
James, William

45.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

46.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

47.
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

48.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus

49.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb


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