Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Best Quotes about Adversity

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Shain, Merle

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Seneca

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Saadi

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aesop

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.