Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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.

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

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Maori

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Homer

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

Augustine, St.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Warren, Earl

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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