Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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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

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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.

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

Bible

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Augustine, St.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Talmud, The

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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