Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Augustine, St.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Aesop

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

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.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

James, William

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Devito, Danny

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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Woolf, Virginia

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bible

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