Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Devito, Danny

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

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''

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Bible

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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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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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Saadi

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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