Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Shain, Merle

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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