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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Schmidt, Walt

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Holtz, Lou

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shain, Merle

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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

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Bible

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Ward, William A.