Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

10.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

11.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

12.

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

Weltman, Phil

13.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

Saadi

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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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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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill