Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Seneca

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Virgil