Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Devito, Danny

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

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

Brown, Les

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Homer

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

10.

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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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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

21.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

22.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

25.

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

Augustine, St.

26.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

27.

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

28.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

30.

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

Gesser

31.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

32.

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

33.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

34.

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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

40.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

46.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Movie, Apollo 13