Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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.

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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Seneca

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Saadi

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Devito, Danny

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone