Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Jung, Carl

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.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saadi

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Sting

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

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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

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Seneca

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

Neal, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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