Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hill, Napoleon

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 it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Homer

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

Bible

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

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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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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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