Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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''

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Homer

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

Schwab, Charles M.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

18.

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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ward, William A.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Bible

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

46.

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

Horace

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.