Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Sting

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

Benson, Taylor

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Horace

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

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

Devito, Danny

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Saadi

11.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, Maori

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

17.

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

Keats, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Virgil

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Homer

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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.

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

Seneca

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Ward, William A.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

39.

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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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Aesop

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.