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

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Gesser

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hill, Napoleon

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Virgil

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Augustine, St.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Heraclitus

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bible

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Aesop