Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Horace

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Virgil

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

30.

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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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

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.