Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Warren, Earl

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

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

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

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Maori

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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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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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

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

Horace

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

Shain, Merle

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Homer

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Rogers, James

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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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

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennet, Arnold

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Walton, Sam

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George