230 quotes about Adversity



I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
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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.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
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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.
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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.
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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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.
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
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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.
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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]
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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]
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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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.
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
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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.
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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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.
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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.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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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.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
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A man is a god in ruins.
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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.
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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.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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.
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What is to give light must endure the burning.
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The proof of gold is fire...
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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