Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Zwanzig, Carl

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Proverb, Maori

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

24.

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

25.

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 seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Bible

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rogers, James

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Virgil

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

Wells, H.G.

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