Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

- Devito, Danny

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Horace

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Talmud, The

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Bible

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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

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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

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

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

Seneca

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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

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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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.