Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Russell, Rosalind

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Brown, Les

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

Heraclitus

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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gesser

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Benson, Taylor

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.