Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

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)

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

James, William

12.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

13.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

15.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

16.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

17.

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

18.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

19.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

21.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

22.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

23.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

24.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

25.

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''

26.

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

27.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Weltman, Phil

29.

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

30.

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

31.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

35.

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

Gesser

36.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

37.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

38.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

39.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

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

42.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

44.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

46.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

47.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

49.

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

50.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George