Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

James, William

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

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Horace

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

14.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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 I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

21.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

36.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Ward, William A.

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Devito, Danny