Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

- Sheehan, George

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Brown, Les

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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)

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

Heraclitus

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Rogers, James

13.

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

Ward, William A.

15.

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

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

18.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

25.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

31.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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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

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

James, William

40.

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

Aesop

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.