Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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

Bible

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

Seneca

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennet, Arnold

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

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

Sting

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Saadi

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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.

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Devito, Danny

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Schweitzer, Albert