Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Movie, Apollo 13

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Landers, Ann

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

James, William

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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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 world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Walton, Sam

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

Devito, Danny

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

39.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.