Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

Seneca

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Augustine, St.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Saadi

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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Homer

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

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.