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

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

25.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

26.

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

27.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Devito, Danny

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

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Holtz, Lou

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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