Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Neal, John

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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]

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