Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gesser

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

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

Bennet, Arnold

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Horace

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.

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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Devito, Danny

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Weltman, Phil

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Ward, William A.

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

23.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Landers, Ann

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.