Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward