Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Dune, Frank Herbert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Seneca

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Proverb, Maori

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, William A.

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

Saadi

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

Aesop

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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 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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Talmud, The

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Bible

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Jung, Carl

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Homer