Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Homer

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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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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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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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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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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

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Ward, William A.

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

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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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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Weltman, Phil

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Seneca

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Brown, Les

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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