Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Samuel

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Heraclitus

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bacon, Francis

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

12.

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

13.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Saadi

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

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

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Schweitzer, Albert