Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Aesop

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

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

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

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

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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Schmidt, Walt

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Neal, John

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Rogers, James

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Bible

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek