Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Saadi

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Billings, Josh

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

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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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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Horace

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May