Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Rogers, James

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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