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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Devito, Danny

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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

11.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Heraclitus

15.

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.

16.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

18.

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

Neal, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

22.

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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

25.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

26.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

28.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

29.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

32.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

33.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

34.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

35.

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.

36.

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

Landers, Ann

37.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

38.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

39.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

40.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

41.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

43.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

44.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

48.

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

49.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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