Motivational Quotes

Adversity

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sheehan, George

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

10.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

11.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Aesop

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

18.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Saadi

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

27.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

30.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

31.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

32.

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

33.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

37.

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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

40.

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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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

42.

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

Neal, John

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Talmud, The

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von