Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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

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

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

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

Sheehan, George

10.

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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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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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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

21.

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

22.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Landers, Ann

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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.

27.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

28.

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''

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Homer

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

40.

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

Heraclitus

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

Sting

43.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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