Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

10.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

11.

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

Bennet, Arnold

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

17.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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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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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.

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

25.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horace

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

42.

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

43.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Sheehan, George

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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