Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

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

Weltman, Phil

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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.

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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

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

31.

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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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 walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Virgil

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Every burden is a blessing.