Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brown, Les

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Saadi

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Virgil

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

Talmud, The

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

Landers, Ann

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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.

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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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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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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George