Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Virgil

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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 a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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 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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Horace

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

Landers, Ann