Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brown, Les

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Saadi

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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

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Aesop

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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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