Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

10.

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

11.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

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

13.

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

Wells, H.G.

14.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

15.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

16.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

17.

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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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

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

22.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

24.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

25.

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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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

28.

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

Aesop

29.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

33.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

34.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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

38.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

39.

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

Proverb, Maori

40.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

41.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

43.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

44.

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

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

Virgil

46.

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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry