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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Seneca

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Virgil

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Horace

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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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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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

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

Gesser

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Devito, Danny

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