Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Dune, Frank Herbert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

10.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

27.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

32.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Homer

37.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

48.

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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca