Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

- Post, Laurens Van du

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Shain, Merle

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

Qur'an

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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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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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Bible

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Aesop

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

Saadi

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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