Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Homer

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Sting

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

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Bible

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Shain, Merle

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Proverb, Maori

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.