Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Holtz, Lou

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

11.

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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

14.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saadi

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Gesser

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

Warren, Earl

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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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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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Brown, Les

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

43.

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

Heraclitus

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

James, William

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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.