Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

11.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

12.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

14.

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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

16.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

18.

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

19.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

21.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

25.

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

26.

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 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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

30.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

31.

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.

32.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Benson, Taylor

34.

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

35.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

36.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

37.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

39.

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

40.

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

41.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bible

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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