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

Seneca

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''

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.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Shain, Merle

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Talmud, The

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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