Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Adversity

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

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

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

Seneca

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Seneca

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Homer

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Benson, Taylor

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.