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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Horace

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

10.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

11.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

12.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

13.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

14.

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Landers, Ann

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

24.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

28.

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

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

37.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Devito, Danny

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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.