Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Saadi

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Weltman, Phil

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Heraclitus

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert