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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Horace