Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

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

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.

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

Shain, Merle

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Augustine, St.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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.