Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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.

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

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Walton, Sam

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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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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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

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Devito, Danny

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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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'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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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