Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Walton, Sam

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Hazlitt, William

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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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

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Russell, Rosalind

33.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Maori

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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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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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.