Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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''

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Horace

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

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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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

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

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Billings, Josh

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Horace

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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