Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Alcott, Louisa May

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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''

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.