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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aesop

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

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

Saadi

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Bible

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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

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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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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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

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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