Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Homer

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