Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

Best Quotes about Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Weltman, Phil

13.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

14.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

15.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

16.

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

17.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Sting

21.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Seneca

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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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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Alcott, Louisa May

30.

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.

31.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

35.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

39.

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

Virgil

40.

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

41.

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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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

44.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

45.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

46.

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

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

Qur'an

48.

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''

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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)