Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Homer

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

James, William

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

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

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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