Motivational Quotes

Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Adversity

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Ward, William A.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William 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 could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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 I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Homer

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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

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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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese