Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Virgil

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

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

Shain, Merle

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

Seneca

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

Rogers, James

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Brown, Les

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gesser

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

Bible

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Seneca

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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.