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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gesser

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sheehan, George

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Homer

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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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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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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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.