Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Virgil

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

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

Shain, Merle

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Benson, Taylor

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

James, William

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Saadi

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

Sting

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Horace

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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

Bible

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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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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