Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

10.

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

11.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

12.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

14.

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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

27.

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.

28.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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

Virgil

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

35.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

43.

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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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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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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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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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb