Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Virgil

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Warren, Earl

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Aesop

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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 willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Gesser

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Homer

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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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Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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