Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

James, William

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Virgil

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Rogers, James

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aesop

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Landers, Ann

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Bible

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

Horace

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

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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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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.