Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Johnson

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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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.

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

Homer

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.