Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Heraclitus

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

Shain, Merle

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Landers, Ann

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Walton, Sam

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Saadi

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

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

James, William

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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

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Aesop

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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