Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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''

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Horace

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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