Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Aesop

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Virgil

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

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Brown, Les

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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