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

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Warren, Earl

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

11.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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

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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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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

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Virgil

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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

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Proverb, Maori

29.

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

32.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

38.

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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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 say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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