Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Seneca

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.