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

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Landers, Ann

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Shain, Merle

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''

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis