Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

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

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

19.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Johnson

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

31.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gesser

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

36.

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.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Brown, Les

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Warren, Earl

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily