Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gesser

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Landers, Ann

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Homer

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Wells, H.G.

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Devito, Danny