Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Talmud, The

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bible

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Seneca

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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