Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Homer

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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''

10.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

18.

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

Rogers, James

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Saadi

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gesser

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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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.

39.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Horace

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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