Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Heraclitus

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

11.

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

12.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

13.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Holtz, Lou

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

30.

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

Seneca

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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

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

34.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Virgil

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

Gesser

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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