Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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.

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Horace

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Aesop

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Devito, Danny

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Sheehan, George

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Richter, Jean Paul