Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Talmud, The

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

12.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Bible

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

30.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

32.

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

33.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Walton, Sam