Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

21.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

24.

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

Talmud, The

26.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

27.

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

Bible

31.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

34.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

48.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Failure is success if we learn from it.