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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Neal, John

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Keats, John

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Virgil

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Rogers, James

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon