Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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]

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Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Holtz, Lou

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Bible

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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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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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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 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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Talmud, The

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Seneca

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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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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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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

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

Gesser

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca