Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aesop

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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