Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Devito, Danny

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

Rogers, James

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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.

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

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Virgil

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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 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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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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

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

Augustine, St.

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Seneca

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