Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

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

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

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Virgil

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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

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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