Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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.

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.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

11.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

16.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Rogers, James

18.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

23.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

24.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

27.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

31.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

33.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

38.

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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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

46.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Saadi

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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

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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