Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

11.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

15.

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

17.

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

Virgil

18.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

25.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert 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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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

34.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

35.

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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

43.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

47.

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

48.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Homer

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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