Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Aesop

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

Augustine, St.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Les

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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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

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

Sheehan, George

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Seneca

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca