Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

19.

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

20.

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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Horace

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Aesop

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

39.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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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

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