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

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Shain, Merle

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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 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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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 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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Barclay, H.K.

25.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Weltman, Phil

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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