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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Bennet, Arnold

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Benson, Taylor

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

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

Rogers, James

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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Brown, Les

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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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

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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

Devito, Danny

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian