Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Maori

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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.

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)

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Virgil

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Qur'an

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

30.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich