Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Talmud, The

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

22.

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

23.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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

26.

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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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

Bible

31.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Gesser

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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