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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Virgil

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

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

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

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

17.

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

18.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

21.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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 reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Aesop

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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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

45.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Devito, Danny

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

Landers, Ann

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