Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Warren, Earl

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Shain, Merle

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Bacon, Francis

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

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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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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.

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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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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

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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