Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Keats, John

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

Bible

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Rogers, James

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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''

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Horace

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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

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Virgil

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

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

Seneca

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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.