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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

James, William

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

10.

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

Landers, Ann

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

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

15.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

16.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

17.

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

18.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

19.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

20.

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

Devito, Danny

21.

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

22.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

24.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

25.

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.

26.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

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

29.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

31.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

32.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

33.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Shain, Merle

38.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

40.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

41.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

44.

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

Schmidt, Walt

45.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

46.

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

Bible

47.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

48.

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

49.

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

50.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?