Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Homer

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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)

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Ward, William A.

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen