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

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Virgil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Gesser

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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