Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Adversity

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Bible

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Devito, Danny

10.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

11.

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

Seneca

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

13.

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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Augustine, St.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

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

James, William

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Brown, Les

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Horace