Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Adversity

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Holtz, Lou

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

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Johnson

11.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

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

Seneca

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

15.

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

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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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 causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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.

27.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

28.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

James, William

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

33.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

34.

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

Proverb, Maori

35.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Benson, Taylor

37.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

38.

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

Sheehan, George

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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Saadi

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.