Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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''

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

Russell, Rosalind

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

11.

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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb