Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

10.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

11.

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

12.

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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

14.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

15.

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

Weltman, Phil

16.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

18.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

25.

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

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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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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

28.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

30.

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

31.

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

Barclay, H.K.

32.

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

33.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

35.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

40.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

44.

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

Sting

45.

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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.