Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Seneca

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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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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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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