Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aesop

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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.

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

Virgil

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren, Earl

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Heraclitus

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Saadi

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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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