Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

Talmud, The

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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''

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Horace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Devito, Danny

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Hemingway, Ernest