Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Aesop

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Shain, Merle

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Devito, Danny

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Schmidt, Walt

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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

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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.

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes