Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shain, Merle

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

11.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Wells, H.G.

14.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

15.

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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Saadi

18.

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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Weltman, Phil

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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.

23.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

25.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

27.

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

Devito, Danny

28.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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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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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

37.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

46.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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.