Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

- Proverb, Maori

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Warren, Earl

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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.

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

James, William

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

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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

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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

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Holtz, Lou

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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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

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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