Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

19.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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.

21.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

23.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

24.

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

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

27.

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

Heraclitus

28.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

29.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

34.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

35.

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

36.

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

Devito, Danny

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

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

Augustine, St.

40.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

43.

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

Aesop

44.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

45.

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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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