Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Shain, Merle

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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 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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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Gesser

19.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

20.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

21.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

22.

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

23.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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.

26.

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

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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.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

29.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

31.

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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

35.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

38.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

50.

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