Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

10.

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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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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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

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

20.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Homer

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

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

28.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

29.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

33.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

34.

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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

42.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.