Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Weltman, Phil

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Virgil

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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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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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

33.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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