Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Shain, Merle

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Rogers, James

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

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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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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Bible

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

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

Saadi

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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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon