Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gesser

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Virgil

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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