Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Landers, Ann

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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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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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Homer

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Saadi

29.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

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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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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

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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.