Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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.

Brown, Les

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Warren, Earl

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Heraclitus

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Virgil

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

Schmidt, Walt

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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