Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Jung, Carl

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Walton, Sam

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Benson, Taylor

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Seneca

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Wells, H.G.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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

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

Ward, William A.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy