Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Seneca

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Heraclitus

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren