Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

- Jackson, Janet

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Saadi

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ward, William A.

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

11.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

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

Proverb, Maori

14.

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

15.

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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Homer

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

Brown, Les

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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.

24.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

26.

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

Seneca

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

Landers, Ann

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

Aesop

31.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

32.

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

Sheehan, George

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

39.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

43.

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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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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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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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

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

Devito, Danny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

50.

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