Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Adversity

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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.

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.

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 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.

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Devito, Danny

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Weltman, Phil

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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.