Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bible

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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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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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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Brown, Les

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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.