Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Aesop

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Horace

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Ward, William A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Warren, Earl