Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Russell, Rosalind

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

10.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

11.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

18.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

Landers, Ann

20.

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

21.

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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

Russell, Rosalind

28.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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.

34.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

35.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

37.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

38.

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

Neal, John

39.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

40.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

41.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

42.

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

Walton, Sam

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

45.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

49.

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

Talmud, The

50.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy