Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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Best Quotes about Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Horace

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Benson, Taylor

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

21.

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

Barclay, H.K.

22.

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

Aesop

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

28.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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.

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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