Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rogers, James

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

10.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

11.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

12.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

13.

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

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

15.

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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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Virgil

23.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

24.

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

25.

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

Devito, Danny

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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''

32.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

33.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Weltman, Phil

39.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

40.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

50.

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.