Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Homer

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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 first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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

Saadi

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Rogers, James

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

Gesser

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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 you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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