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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Maori

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Virgil

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Seneca

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.