Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bible

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Gesser

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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

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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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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques