Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

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

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Landers, Ann

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Homer

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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Keats, John

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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

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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.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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

Rogers, James

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

James, William

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Stumbling is not falling.