Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Johnson

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

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

Saadi

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Homer

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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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Shain, Merle

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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 seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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