Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Weltman, Phil

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Seneca

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

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Augustine, St.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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