Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Saadi

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Virgil

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

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.