Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

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

Sting

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Devito, Danny

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Landers, Ann

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

James, William

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Warren, Earl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Wells, H.G.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Bible

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kempis, Thomas