Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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

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

Bible

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)

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.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Ward, William A.

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

Warren, Earl

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Seneca

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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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

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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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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''

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald