Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Homer

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Heraclitus

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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.