Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Seneca

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Talmud, The

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

Benson, Taylor

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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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