Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Heraclitus

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Augustine, St.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Maori

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Virgil

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

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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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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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