Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Aesop

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

Shain, Merle

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Gesser

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

Holtz, Lou

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

34.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Warren, Earl

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

Virgil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Homer

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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