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 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

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

Landers, Ann

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Seneca

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Weltman, Phil

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Horace

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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