Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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''

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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

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

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

17.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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.

19.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Devito, Danny

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

30.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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.

32.

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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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Brown, Les

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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