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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Barclay, H.K.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Shain, Merle

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Landers, Ann

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

19.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

20.

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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Aesop

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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''