Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

- Bennet, Arnold

Best Quotes about Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Seneca

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Gesser

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.