Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Seneca

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Ward, William A.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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