Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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)

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Schmidt, Walt

10.

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

11.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

12.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

13.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

15.

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

16.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

17.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

18.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

19.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

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

23.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

25.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Russell, Rosalind

28.

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

29.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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

Saadi

31.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

32.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

33.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

34.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

35.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

38.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Walton, Sam

40.

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.

41.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Johnson

44.

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.

45.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

46.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Schwab, Charles M.

49.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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