Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Qur'an

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.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aesop

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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