Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Benson, Taylor

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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

Schmidt, Walt

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.