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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Augustine, St.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

James, William

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

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shain, Merle

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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