Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kempis, Thomas

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

11.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

12.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Horace

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

28.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Aesop

32.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Bible

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

39.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

40.

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

Devito, Danny

41.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Brown, Les

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Saadi

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

Landers, Ann

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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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