Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Heraclitus

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

James, William

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

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Horace

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

Seneca

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

11.

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

Ward, William A.

13.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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]

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

19.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

20.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

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

Saadi

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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

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

29.

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.

30.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Warren, Earl

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

39.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

40.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

42.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

48.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

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

50.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy