Motivational Quotes

Adversity

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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.

11.

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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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

14.

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

18.

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

Proverb, Maori

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

20.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

21.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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

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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

25.

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

26.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

29.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

32.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

38.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

39.

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

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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

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

44.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.