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

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.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Schmidt, Walt

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Heraclitus

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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