Motivational Quotes

Adversity

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Adversity

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Seneca

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

15.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Homer

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

29.

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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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

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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

Virgil

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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 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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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