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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

11.

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

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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.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Saadi

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

Horace

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Wells, H.G.

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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.

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

41.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Devito, Danny

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Talmud, The

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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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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