Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Augustine, St.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Talmud, The

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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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''

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Heraclitus

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

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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 you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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