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

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Virgil

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Seneca

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

24.

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.

25.

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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Weltman, Phil

33.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

34.

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

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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 the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ward, William A.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon