Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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''

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Aesop

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Heraclitus

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone