Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Adversity

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Gesser

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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

33.

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

34.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

37.

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

38.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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