Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wells, H.G.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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 will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Seneca

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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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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brown, Les

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them