Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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''

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Horace

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Landers, Ann

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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 seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Weltman, Phil

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Virgil

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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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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean