Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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''

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ward, William A.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

21.

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

Gesser

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

25.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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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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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.

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

32.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

39.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

40.

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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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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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian