Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Devito, Danny

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

32.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Ward, William A.