Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

11.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

14.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

15.

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

Shain, Merle

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

19.

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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

21.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

22.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

23.

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

24.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

25.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

31.

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

Virgil

33.

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

34.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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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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 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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

40.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

41.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

42.

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

Bible

43.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

44.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

James, William

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

48.

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

Devito, Danny

49.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og