Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Homer

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Macdonald, George

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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