Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Casey, M Kathleen

Best Quotes about Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Devito, Danny

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Bible

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Augustine, St.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Homer

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

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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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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Warren, Earl

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Weltman, Phil

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Aesop

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

Brown, Les

48.

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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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