Quotes about adversity

"Every silver lining has a cloud."

Avon on adversity   

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

Bacon, Francis on adversity   

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

Barclay, H.K. on adversity
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on adversity
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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

Beecher, Henry Ward on adversity   

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."

Bennet, Arnold on adversity
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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

Benson, Taylor on adversity   

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

Bible on adversity   

"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 on adversity   

"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 on adversity   

"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."

Billings, Josh on adversity   

"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."

Bradstreet, Anne on adversity   

"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 on adversity   

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

Brown, Les on adversity
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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. on adversity   

"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."

Buckham, James on adversity
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"Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture."

Burata, Mario on adversity   

"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 on adversity   

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

Byron, Lord on adversity   

"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Cady, Emilie on adversity
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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."

Carlyle, Thomas on adversity   

"No pressure, no diamonds."

Case, Mary on adversity   

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Casey, M Kathleen on adversity
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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."

Chambers, Oswald on adversity
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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."

Chambers, Oswald on adversity   

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on adversity   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adversity
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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. on adversity   

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

Chin, Jerry on adversity
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"God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."

proverb, Bulgarian on adversity
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy on adversity
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