Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Wells, H.G.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Colton, Charles Caleb