Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

- Russell, Rosalind

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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''

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Landers, Ann

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

29.

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

Seneca

30.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

32.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Homer

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Horace

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

48.

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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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.