Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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.

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 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

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

Bible

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

James, William

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Talmud, The

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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 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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

24.

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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Warren, Earl

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord