Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Horace

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Benson, Taylor

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Warren, Earl

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes