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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Devito, Danny

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''

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

Rogers, James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Gesser

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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