Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Horace

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Homer

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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

Gesser

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Saadi

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

Virgil

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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