Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

- Paine, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Qur'an

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Paine, Thomas

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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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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 you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les