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

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aesop

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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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Chambers, Oswald

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Homer

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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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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.