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

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Saadi

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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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Virgil

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

Weltman, Phil

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Aesop

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ward, William A.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus