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

Schwab, Charles M.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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.

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

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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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

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Holtz, Lou