Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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

James, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

11.

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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Landers, Ann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

20.

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

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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Augustine, St.

32.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Brown, Les

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Beecher, Henry Ward