Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schweitzer, Albert

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Seneca

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Virgil

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

Warren, Earl

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Sheehan, George

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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