Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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''

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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)

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Shain, Merle

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.