Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

- Avon

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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)

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bible

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Benson, Taylor

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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 could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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''

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Saadi

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

Homer

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Virgil

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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