Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

- Sting

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

11.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

12.

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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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''

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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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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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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

17.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

18.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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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

21.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weltman, Phil

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

25.

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

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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

Horace

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen