Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Gesser

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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''

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius