Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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.

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''

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Aesop

10.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

11.

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.

12.

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

Wells, H.G.

13.

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.

14.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

16.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Warren, Earl

19.

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

20.

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

Qur'an

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

Homer

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

26.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

27.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

29.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

33.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

38.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Seneca

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

43.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

44.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

46.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

47.

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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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.

49.

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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace