Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Saadi

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

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

Talmud, The

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

10.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

11.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

14.

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

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

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

Heraclitus

17.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

18.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

19.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Propertius, Sextus

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

25.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

26.

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.

27.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

30.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

36.

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

Aesop

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

40.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

41.

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

Wells, H.G.

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

James, William

45.

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

46.

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)

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

Seneca

48.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

49.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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