Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Walton, Sam

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

15.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

16.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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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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''

23.

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

Keats, John

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

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

Bible

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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

30.

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

Ward, William A.

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

33.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

37.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

40.

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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

42.

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

James, William

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

45.

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

Saadi

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Aesop