Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Bible

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Jung, Carl

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

Neal, John

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

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

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Augustine, St.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Aesop

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

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

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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

Saadi

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

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

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Weltman, Phil

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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