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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Bible

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Devito, Danny

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Talmud, The

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Benson, Taylor

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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