Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about 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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Talmud, The

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

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Gesser

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ward, William A.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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