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

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

Landers, Ann

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Shain, Merle

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Saadi

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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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.

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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]

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