Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Qur'an

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Brown, Les

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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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 a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Virgil

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Homer

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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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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

38.

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

Rogers, James

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

41.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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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''

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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