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

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

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Devito, Danny

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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