Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Benson, Taylor

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Seneca

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

Hazlitt, William

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

10.

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

Holtz, Lou

11.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

12.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

13.

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

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Qur'an

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

21.

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 need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

25.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

26.

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

Shain, Merle

27.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

28.

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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

Horace

32.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

34.

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.

35.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

38.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Johnson

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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''