Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Bible

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson