Quotes about adversity

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

Unknown, Source on adversity   

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

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"We need tough days to drive us to our knees."

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"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."

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"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."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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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."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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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."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If your knees are knocking, kneel on them."

Unknown, Source on adversity   

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

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed."

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

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them"

Unknown, Source on adversity   

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

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

Walton, Sam on adversity
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"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."

Ward, William A. on adversity
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"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it."

Warren, Earl on adversity   

"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 on adversity   

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

Wells, H.G. on adversity   

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

Weltman, Phil on adversity   

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes on adversity   

"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end."

Whitney, Bert on adversity   

"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph."

Woolf, Virginia on adversity   

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

Ziglar, Zig on adversity
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."

Zwanzig, Carl on adversity   

"I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it."

Adams, Bryan on adversity   

"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

Advisor, Heartland on adversity   

"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes."

Aesop on adversity
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"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 on adversity
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"When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

Ash, Mary Kay on adversity   

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

Augustine, St. on adversity
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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 on adversity
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