Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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''

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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

18.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

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

21.

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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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

29.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

30.

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

Warren, Earl

31.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Seneca

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

Sting

39.

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

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

James, William

42.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

43.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

44.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

48.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

49.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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