Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zwanzig, Carl

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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

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

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Homer

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

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

Horace

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Aesop

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Ward, William A.

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward