Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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.

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.

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Gesser

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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

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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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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

30.

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

31.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

35.

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

36.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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 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