Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gesser

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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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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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

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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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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Augustine, St.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Brown, Les

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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