Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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.

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

Wells, H.G.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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

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

19.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

21.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Seneca

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.