Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Zwanzig, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Seneca

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Shain, Merle

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, Chinese

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Homer

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''