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

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Seneca

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

12.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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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

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Brown, Les

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Maori

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus