Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

- Avon

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Bible

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Horace

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Landers, Ann

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.