Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

11.

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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Johnson

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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