Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

James, William

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Seneca

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Ward, William A.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

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

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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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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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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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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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