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Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
- Plutarch
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

2.
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

3.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Weltman, Phil

4.
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.

5.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

6.
If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

7.
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

8.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon

9.
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.

10.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

11.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James

12.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

13.
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Westcott, Edward Noyes

14.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Saying, Greek

15.
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.

16.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Leonard, George

17.
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

18.
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

19.
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

20.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Ziglar, Zig

21.
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

22.
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Ward, William A.

23.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

24.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Coppola, Francis Ford

25.
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

26.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul

27.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

28.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

29.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Colton, Charles Caleb

30.
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Chambers, Oswald

31.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting

32.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.
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

34.
The proof of gold is fire...
Franklin, Benjamin

35.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Saadi

36.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

37.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

39.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Bible

40.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Dune, Frank Herbert

42.
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.

43.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.
Only entropy comes easy.
Mumford, Lewis

45.
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

46.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh

47.
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

48.
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

49.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis

50.
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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