Motivational Quotes

Adversity

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

- Schmidt, Walt

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Devito, Danny

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

Horace

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

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

Qur'an

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

Gesser

10.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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.

18.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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

20.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

21.

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 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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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.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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

31.

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

32.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

36.

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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Warren, Earl

41.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

43.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

44.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

45.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

46.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

48.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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.