Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Schmidt, Walt

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Heraclitus

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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

James, William

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

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

Virgil

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Augustine, St.

44.

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.