Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

- Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

Best Quotes about Adversity

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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

James, William

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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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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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 is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Sheehan, George

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Horace

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.