Motivational Quotes

Adversity

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Rogers, James

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Seneca

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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 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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Homer

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

James, William

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

31.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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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

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

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

Gesser

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.