Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Saadi

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Shain, Merle

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Augustine, St.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ward, William A.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Seneca

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Horace

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Aesop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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