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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ward, William A.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Qur'an

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Shain, Merle

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Brown, Les

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

40.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Warren, Earl