Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

Virgil

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

11.

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

James, William

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

Horace

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

15.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

18.

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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

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

Keats, John

22.

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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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.

32.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

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

Brown, Les

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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.

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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''

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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

Gesser

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

Shain, Merle

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.