Adversity Quotes 2009

ADVERSITY QUOTES for Tuesday January 6, 2009

Rock bottom is good solid ground,

and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.

Buddy Buie

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times.

They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell,

with necessities as hard as iron.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Unknown

Prosperity doth best discover vice;

but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Francis Bacon

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

Morris Mandel

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better,

not bitter.

Unknown

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled.

What we can control is how we react to it.

Source Unknown

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.
Martin E. P. Seligman

Adversity is like not getting your cookies

for the day!

Spot Dunckel