Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

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Best Quotes about Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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

18.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

19.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

20.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

23.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

24.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

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

26.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

27.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

28.

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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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

30.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

Schmidt, Walt

32.

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

33.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

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

Rogers, James

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

Shain, Merle

43.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

44.

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

Neal, John

45.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

48.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

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

Talmud, The

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

Devito, Danny