Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Horace

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Schwab, Charles M.