Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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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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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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Walton, Sam

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Shain, Merle

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Virgil

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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 doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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