Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

10.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Benson, Taylor

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Landers, Ann

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Saadi