Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

20.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Horace

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

Rogers, James

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Landers, Ann

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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.