Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

31.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

41.

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

Horace

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil