Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Homer

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

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Aesop

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

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Devito, Danny

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.