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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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 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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren, Earl

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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

Aesop

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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