Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Virgil

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Barclay, H.K.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Landers, Ann

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Augustine, St.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Seneca

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Brown, Les

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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