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

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

Kempis, Thomas

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Maori

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Sting

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Heraclitus

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

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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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