Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Qur'an

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Bible

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

Devito, Danny

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Maori

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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

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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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

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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Rogers, James

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Saadi

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

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