Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Walton, Sam

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Landers, Ann

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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.

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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

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Qur'an

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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.