Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

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

Brown, Les

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

Gesser

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Aesop

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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