Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Aesop

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Jung, Carl

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

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

Seneca

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

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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