Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Alcott, Louisa May

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Homer

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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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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 a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

44.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.