Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Horace

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

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

James, William

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ward, William A.

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Maori

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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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

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath