Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Gesser

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

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Devito, Danny

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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 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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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