Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

- Ford, Elias A.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren, Earl

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brown, Les

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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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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.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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