Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Horace

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

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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gesser

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

Devito, Danny

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

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