Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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''

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

18.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Seneca

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Talmud, The

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.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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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Horace

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