Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Devito, Danny

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Devito, Danny

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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.

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

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

10.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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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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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

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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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

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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

24.

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

Benson, Taylor

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

29.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

34.

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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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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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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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Heraclitus

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Qur'an

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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.

47.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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