Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Jung, Carl

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.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

18.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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.

28.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

31.

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

Gesser

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

34.

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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Devito, Danny

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Bible

43.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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.

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

Heraclitus

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent