Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

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

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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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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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

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Benson, Taylor

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

28.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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 hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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