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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Gesser

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

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

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

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Heraclitus

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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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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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''

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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.

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.