Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Westcott, Edward Noyes

Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

10.

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

11.

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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

13.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

14.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

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.

16.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

19.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

20.

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

Horace

21.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

22.

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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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

24.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

James, William

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

Ward, William A.

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

31.

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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

33.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

35.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.

40.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

42.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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

44.

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

Talmud, The

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Seneca

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie