Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Landers, Ann

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Shain, Merle

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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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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Gesser

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich