Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Bible

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Ward, William A.

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Saadi

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Weltman, Phil

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore