Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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