Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

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

Ward, William A.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Shain, Merle

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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Rogers, James

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bible

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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

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

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saadi

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Weltman, Phil

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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