Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Saadi

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Aesop

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Weltman, Phil

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Wells, H.G.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Augustine, St.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

45.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

48.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Ward, William A.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De