Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Virgil

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Aesop

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Seneca

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Brown, Les

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.