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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hazlitt, William

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Keats, John

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

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

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius