Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Adversity

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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

Keats, John

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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 need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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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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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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