Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Neal, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Propertius, Sextus

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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

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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 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 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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Sheehan, George

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

Brown, Les

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Homer

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

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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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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Aesop

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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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.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis