Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Virgil

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

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

Gesser

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Seneca

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Proverb, Maori

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Brown, Les