Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Horace

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

29.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore