Motivational Quotes

Adversity

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Adversity

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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

Augustine, St.

10.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

26.

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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, Maori

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren