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Adversity

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
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Sayers, Dorothy L.

2.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca

3.
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Kempis, Thomas

4.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl

5.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Post, Laurens Van du

6.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt

7.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

8.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

9.
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

10.
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.

11.
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

12.
The proof of gold is fire...
Franklin, Benjamin

13.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace

14.
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy

15.
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

16.
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

17.
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.

18.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

19.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Talmud, The

20.
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, SĀ°ren

21.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
James, William

22.
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

23.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Collier, Robert

24.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon

25.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam

26.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward

27.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh

28.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca

29.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John

30.
If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
Sheehan, George

31.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Ziglar, Zig

32.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul

33.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca

34.
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

35.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

37.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace

38.
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

39.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent

40.
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.

41.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Ash, Mary Kay

43.
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

44.
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil

45.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Johnson

46.
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.

47.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann

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

49.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Casey, M Kathleen


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