Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Virgil

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gallagher, Robert C.