Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

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''

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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Aesop

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

Johnson

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Brown, Les

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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