Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Lawrence, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Barclay, H.K.

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.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Saadi

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Landers, Ann

10.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

13.

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

14.

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

Neal, John

16.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

17.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

18.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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.

20.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

24.

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

Brown, Les

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

30.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

33.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

35.

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

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

40.

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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Devito, Danny

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

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.