Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bennet, Arnold

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Billings, Josh

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Heraclitus

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Saadi

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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