Motivational Quotes

Adversity

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Landers, Ann

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Warren, Earl

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

Seneca

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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 would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Bible

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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 are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Saadi

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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