Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aesop

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

16.

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

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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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 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.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Maori

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

Saadi

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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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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''

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Bible

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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