Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Horace

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

12.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Augustine, St.

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

29.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

35.

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

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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.

38.

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

39.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

48.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.