Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

- Westcott, Edward Noyes

Best Quotes about Adversity

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wells, H.G.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ward, William A.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Gesser

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

Proverb, Maori

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Warren, Earl

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Virgil

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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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.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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