Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Augustine, St.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Brown, Les

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

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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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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Gesser

39.

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas