Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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

Seneca

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Heraclitus

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Warren, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hemingway, Ernest