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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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

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.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Rogers, James

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Brown, Les

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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]

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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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