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

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

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

Johnson

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

Bible

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

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Devito, Danny

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

Aesop

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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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

42.

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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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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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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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

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

Horace

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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