Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Horace

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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Seneca

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Seneca

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Virgil

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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

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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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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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Homer

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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