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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Holtz, Lou

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Landers, Ann

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Proverb, Maori

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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 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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Bible

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Warren, Earl

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