Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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 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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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

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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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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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