Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Talmud, The

12.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

26.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

27.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

28.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

30.

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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

35.

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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

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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt