Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Saadi

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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.

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

10.

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

Aesop

11.

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

Benson, Taylor

12.

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

Sheehan, George

13.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

14.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

20.

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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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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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

23.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

24.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

25.

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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

30.

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

Bible

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

38.

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

Homer

39.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Talmud, The

41.

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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren, Earl

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

Proverb, Maori