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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Warren, Earl

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

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Proverb, Maori

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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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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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Bible

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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.