Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

- Kerr, Jean

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

James, William

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

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Devito, Danny

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Benson, Taylor

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Saadi

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario