Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Proverb, Chinese

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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 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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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

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Wells, H.G.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Landers, Ann

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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