Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

- Kerr, Jean

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Hazlitt, William

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

10.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

James, William

12.

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

Woolf, Virginia

13.

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

14.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Saadi

18.

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

19.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

22.

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

Proverb, Maori

23.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

24.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

26.

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

27.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

29.

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

30.

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

Ward, William A.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Neal, John

35.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

36.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

41.

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

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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.

43.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Bible

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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.