Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Virgil

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

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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.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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)

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

Movie, Apollo 13

15.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

16.

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

17.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Heraclitus

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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.

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

James, William

26.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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 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

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

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

Russell, Rosalind

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

34.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

41.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

45.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.