Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Adversity

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bacon, Francis

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Horace

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shain, Merle

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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