Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

Bennet, Arnold

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Saadi

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

Billings, Josh

12.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

16.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

17.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

18.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

Talmud, The

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

25.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

28.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

31.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

32.

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

33.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

34.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Aesop

40.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

41.

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

43.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Schweitzer, Albert

45.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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