Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Rogers, James

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Alcott, Louisa May

10.

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

Horace

11.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

12.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

15.

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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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

20.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

21.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

29.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Heraclitus

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.