Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Benson, Taylor

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Shain, Merle

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell