Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Landers, Ann

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Seneca

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Holtz, Lou

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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