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

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

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

13.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

14.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

15.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

18.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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 see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

22.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

23.

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

Walton, Sam

24.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

25.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

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

Benson, Taylor

27.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

30.

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

31.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

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 reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

34.

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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Seneca

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

Saadi

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

45.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Bible

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

49.

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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.