Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Augustine, St.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Rogers, James

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Talmud, The

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

Sheehan, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Horace

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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 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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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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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.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Weltman, Phil

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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

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

Seneca

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von