Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Casey, M Kathleen

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aesop

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Sting

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

Horace

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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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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Landers, Ann

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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

Ward, William A.

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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