Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Benson, Taylor

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

Seneca

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert