Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Saadi

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Augustine, St.

40.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

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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''

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

Barclay, H.K.