Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

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

Proverb, Maori

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Landers, Ann

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

Holtz, Lou

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Gesser

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

Augustine, St.

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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