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Quotations about
Adversity and Challenge
| Quote: | True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort. |
| Author: | Walter Anderson |
| Source: | The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson |
| Quote: | In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. |
| Author: | Horace |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Quote: | Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. |
| Author: | Horace |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Quote: | Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. |
| Author: | Horace |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Quote: | It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. |
| Author: | Horace |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Quote: | It doesn't make any difference whether what you face is something that affects your work, your personal relationships, your sense of security, your appraisal of self-worth, or your appearance--the way you think about your situation largely determines whether you will do anything about it and what you will do. |
| Author: | Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf |
| Source: | The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them: Simple and Sure Techniques for Gaining Greater Control of Your Life by Arthur Freeman |
| Quote: | Adversity and loss make a man wise. |
| Author: | Welsh proverb |
| Source: | The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs |
| Quote: | Adversity is the foundation of virtue |
| Author: | Japanese proverb. |
| Source: | The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs |
| Quote: | Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| Author: | Francis Bacon |
| Source: | The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
| Quote: | A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. |
| Author: | English proverb |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head... |
| Author: | William Shakespeare (As You Like It) |
| Source: | Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Quote: | Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom. |
| Author: | Welsh proverb |
| Source: | The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs |
| Quote: | O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.' |
| Author: | Isaiah 30:19-21 |
| Source: | Holy Bible |
| Quote: | Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Quote: | The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in? |
| Author: | Dan Quayle |
| Source: | 'Quayle enters 2001 race; takes his message to hometown folks' by Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, Arizona Republic April 15, 1999 |
| Quote: | Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. |
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Source: | The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation |
| Quote: | A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. |
| Author: | American proverb |
| Source: | The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation |
| Quote: | A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. |
| Author: | Charles de Gaulle |
| Source: | Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren |
| Quote: | 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. |
| Author: | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| Source: | Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren |
| Quote: | Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. |
| Author: | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Source: | Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Quote: | Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart. |
| Author: | Myla Kabat-Zinn |
| Source: | Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| Quote: | No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. |
| Author: | William Penn |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. |
| Author: | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
| Author: | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | It is a great art to laught at your own misfortune. |
| Author: | Danish proverb |
| Source: | The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs |
| Quote: | In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. |
| Author: | Mao Tse-Tung |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. |
| Author: | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Source: | Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
| Quote: | If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. |
| Author: | Bernie Siegel, MD |
| Source: | Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
| Quote: | The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty. |
| Author: | L.P. Jacks |
| Source: | Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren |
| Quote: | Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into the habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. |
| Author: | William James |
| Source: | You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought by Peter McWilliams |
| Quote: | We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. |
| Author: | Juvenal |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet |
| Source: | Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Quote: | 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. |
| Author: | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| Source: | Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner |
| Quote: | The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. |
| Author: | Madame De Maintenon |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them ultimately determines how successful you are. |
| Author: | Craig McFarlane (blind motivational speaker) |
| Source: | 'Motivation overcomes 'minor inconvenience' by Robbie Sherwood, 11/13/98 Arizona Republic |
| Quote: | For man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abadonment and poverty are battefields which have their heroes--obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. |
| Author: | Victor Hugo |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | ...so often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us. |
| Author: | Lynn V. Andrews |
| Source: | Walk in Balance: Meditations With Lynn Andrews by Lynn V. Andrews |
| Quote: | There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. |
| Author: | Phyllis Bottome |
| Source: | Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner |
| Quote: | If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities. |
| Author: | Gordon W. Allport, from the Introduction |
| Source: | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl |
| Quote: | Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. |
| Author: | People/horace.shtml |
| Source: | Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
| Quote: | While there's life, there's hope! |
| Author: | Ancient Roman Saying |
| Source: | Be Hopeful: How to make the best of times out of the worst of times by Warren Wiersbe |
| Quote: | Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. |
| Author: | Edmund Burke |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. |
| Author: | Chiang Kai-Shek |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. |
| Author: | Cicero |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. |
| Author: | Charles Caleb Colton |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. |
| Author: | Henry Fielding |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. |
| Author: | Henry Fielding |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. |
| Author: | Malcolm Forbes |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. |
| Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it. |
| Author: | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. |
| Author: | John Neal |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue. |
| Author: | Johann Friedrich von Schiller |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. |
| Author: | Seneca |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. |
| Author: | Seneca |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. |
| Author: | James Sharp |
| Source: | The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
| Quote: | It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead. |
| Author: | Merle Shain |
| Source: | Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Quote: | I learn by going where I have to go. |
| Author: | Theodore Roethke |
| Source: | The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron |
| Quote: | What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. |
| Author: | Portuguese proverb |
| Source: | The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs |
| Quote: | Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. |
| Author: | William Butler Yeats |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
| Quote: | Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. |
| Author: | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Source: | Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
| Quote: | A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth. |
| Author: | Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. |
| Source: | 'Ensouling Ourselves' by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
| Quote: | We'd never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. |
| Author: | Emily Dickinson |
| Source: | Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner |
| Quote: | What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. |
| Author: | Blaine Lee |
| Source: | The Power Principle: Influence with Honor by Blaine Lee |
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