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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

14.

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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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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

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

32.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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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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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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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

Proverb, Maori

50.

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