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

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

Horace

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Heraclitus

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Maori

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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

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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

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

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

James, William

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

Seneca

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Bennet, Arnold

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.