Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

- Avon

Best Quotes about Adversity

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Aesop

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Ward, William A.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford