Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sheehan, George

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Johnson

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.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

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

Homer

11.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

12.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

13.

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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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 it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

18.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

20.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

25.

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

26.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

27.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

30.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

31.

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

32.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Keats, John

34.

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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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

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

Aesop

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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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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.