Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Shain, Merle

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

Talmud, The

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benson, Taylor

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Seneca

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Wells, H.G.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Qur'an

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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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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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

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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