Motivational Quotes

Adversity

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Homer

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

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Augustine, St.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Seneca

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

Ward, William A.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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.