Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Adversity

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Horace

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

11.

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

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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 doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Maori

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

41.

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

43.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bible

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.