Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Collins, Kitty O'neill

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Aesop

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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''

15.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

16.

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

Bible

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

20.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

21.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

24.

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

25.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

26.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

27.

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

28.

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

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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

41.

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

Proverb, Maori

42.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heraclitus

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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.