Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Woolf, Virginia

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gesser

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Warren, Earl

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Wells, H.G.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Devito, Danny

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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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.