Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Proverb, Maori

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

14.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Horace

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Johnson

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

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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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Frank, Anne

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Bacon, Francis

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ward, William A.

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