Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

- Sheehan, George

Best Quotes about Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Homer

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

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.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Augustine, St.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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