Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schmidt, Walt

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shain, Merle

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

10.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Rogers, James

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

32.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

33.

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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Aesop

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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''

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

Beecher, Henry Ward