Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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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

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

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Weltman, Phil

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Virgil

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

Aesop

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Augustine, St.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Saadi

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landers, Ann

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.