Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Holtz, Lou

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Bacon, Francis

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

10.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

12.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Heraclitus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Seneca

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

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

Virgil

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

41.

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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay