Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

Seneca

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rogers, James

11.

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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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Brown, Les

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

27.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

37.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

38.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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