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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Weltman, Phil

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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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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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