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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Horace

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

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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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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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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.

France, Anatole

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Virgil

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

Heraclitus

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John