Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jung, Carl

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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 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

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

Seneca

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Seneca

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Weltman, Phil

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

James, William

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

Heraclitus

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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

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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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin