Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Hill, Napoleon

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Seneca

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

Sting

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Bible

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

Landers, Ann

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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.

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

Saadi

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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.