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

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

Shain, Merle

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Schmidt, Walt

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

18.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

32.

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

James, William

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Maori

41.

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

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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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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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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell