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

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Warren, Earl

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Seneca

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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

33.

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

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Aesop

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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