Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

- Russell, Rosalind

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Virgil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

10.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Warren, Earl

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

Talmud, The

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Homer

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

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

James, William

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Bible

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon