Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Brown, Les

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Alcott, Louisa May

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Kempis, Thomas

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Neal, John

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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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

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

30.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

32.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Horace

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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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)