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

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

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

Bible

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Russell, Rosalind

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Holtz, Lou

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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.