Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Schweitzer, Albert

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Saadi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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.

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

Horace

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horace

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Holtz, Lou

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Sheehan, George

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.