Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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

Homer

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

11.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

12.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wells, H.G.

20.

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

Gesser

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hill, Napoleon

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Neal, John

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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 man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Saadi

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bible

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