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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

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

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Warren, Earl

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Saadi

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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 career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Russell, Rosalind

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.