Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

10.

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

11.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

15.

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

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Seneca

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Heraclitus

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

Movie, Apollo 13

30.

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

31.

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

Homer

32.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

41.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

43.

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

44.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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