Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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Best Quotes about Adversity

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

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

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

Devito, Danny

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

Horace

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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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

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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

19.

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

Shain, Merle

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

27.

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

Bible

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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

32.

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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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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.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon