Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Adversity

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

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

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Heraclitus

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Ward, William A.

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Wells, H.G.

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Gesser

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Proverb, Maori

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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