Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Benson, Taylor

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.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Heraclitus

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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

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

Bible

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

Devito, Danny