Motivational Quotes

Adversity

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Adversity

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Gesser

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Landers, Ann

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Warren, Earl

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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

33.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 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.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Heraclitus