Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Rogers, James

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Warren, Earl

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Devito, Danny

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Augustine, St.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Ward, William A.

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin