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

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

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

Johnson

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Proverb, Chinese

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Saadi

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

Horace

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

14.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

22.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Heraclitus

29.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

36.

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

Neal, John

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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.

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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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

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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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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance