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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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''

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

Holtz, Lou

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Talmud, The