Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Talmud, The

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Heraclitus

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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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

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Virgil

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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