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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Homer

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gesser

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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 three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Horace

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Taylor

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.