Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Warren, Earl

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.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Benson, Taylor

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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 doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Virgil

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.