Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Homer

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Maori

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schweitzer, Albert