Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Keats, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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

James, William

11.

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

Russell, Rosalind

12.

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

Johnson

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

Weltman, Phil

15.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Seneca

20.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

21.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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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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

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

27.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

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

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

32.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Gesser

35.

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

Warren, Earl

36.

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

Neal, John

38.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

39.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

40.

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

41.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Rogers, James

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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

45.

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

Proverb, Maori

46.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.