Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Warren, Earl

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.