Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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 it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Virgil

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Bible

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Rogers, James

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Landers, Ann

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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.