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

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

Homer

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Warren, Earl

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Heraclitus

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Horace

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

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Virgil

48.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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.