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

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

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Homer

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Saadi

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

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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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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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Aesop

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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