Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Seneca

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

Saadi

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

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

James, William

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Warren, Earl

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Hemingway, Ernest