Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Heraclitus

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.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Walton, Sam

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bacon, Francis

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

12.

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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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.

Frank, Anne

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Saadi

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Rogers, James

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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.

France, Anatole

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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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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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.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Seneca

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

41.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Warren, Earl

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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.

Collier, Robert

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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.

Havner, Vance

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.