Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

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''

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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

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

Seneca

10.

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

Homer

11.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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.

13.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

19.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

20.

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.

21.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

22.

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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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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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)

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

27.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Devito, Danny

31.

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

32.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

33.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

34.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Rogers, James

36.

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

Holtz, Lou

37.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

38.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

39.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

40.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

41.

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

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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

45.

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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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

47.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

48.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

49.

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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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