Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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.

France, Anatole

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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

Virgil

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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

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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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