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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

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

Horace

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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Rogers, James

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Walton, Sam

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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

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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.