Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Weltman, Phil

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

11.

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

Sheehan, George

12.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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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

19.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

25.

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

Homer

26.

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

Virgil

27.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

28.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

30.

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

37.

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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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

39.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

40.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

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

Talmud, The

45.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

46.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aesop