Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Rogers, James

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

Brown, Les

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

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

49.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius