Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Bible

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

Devito, Danny

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Horace

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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''

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

Wells, H.G.