Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Casey, M Kathleen

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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

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

Johnson

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

Saadi

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Homer

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Barclay, H.K.

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Bible

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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 worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

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

Virgil