Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Virgil

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

Saadi

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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

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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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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

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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