Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Woolf, Virginia

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Gesser

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Augustine, St.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sheehan, George

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

Saadi

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

Seneca

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Devito, Danny

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Shain, Merle

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Aesop