Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Heraclitus

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Virgil

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Shain, Merle

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

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Saadi

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