Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Propertius, Sextus

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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

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

Shain, Merle

20.

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

Keats, John

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

Warren, Earl

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Schmidt, Walt

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Saadi

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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 burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

James, William

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

40.

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

41.

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Benson, Taylor