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

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gesser

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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

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

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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 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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington