Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Warren, Earl

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

Gesser

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

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Bacon, Francis

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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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

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Walton, Sam

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

Virgil

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Shain, Merle

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.