Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Sheehan, George

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Horace

13.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

15.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Heraclitus

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

Scott, Sir Walter

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

28.

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

30.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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

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

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aesop

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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

40.

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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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