Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

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

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Shain, Merle

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Warren, Earl

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schmidt, Walt

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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