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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Devito, Danny

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Warren, Earl

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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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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

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

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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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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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen