Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Bennet, Arnold

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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

11.

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

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

Proverb, Maori

27.

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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

37.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Shain, Merle

43.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

44.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

48.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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