Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Devito, Danny

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

15.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

34.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest