Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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.

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

Johnson

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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 fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

28.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Wells, H.G.