Motivational Quotes

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Allenbaugh, Eric

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

James, William

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Warren, Earl

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

30.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

31.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

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

Virgil

33.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

Adams, Bryan

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

44.

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

Homer

45.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

46.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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