Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Virgil

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.

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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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

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

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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.