Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Seneca

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

26.

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

Qur'an

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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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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

29.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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