Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Homer

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

Heraclitus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

10.

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

11.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

12.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

13.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

15.

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

17.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

19.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

20.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Neal, John

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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.

27.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

30.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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.

40.

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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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.

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca