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

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

Aesop

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Billings, Josh

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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

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

43.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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