Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Augustine, St.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Homer

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

Saadi

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Ward, William A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George