Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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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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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

27.

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

28.

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

Ward, William A.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

34.

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

Benson, Taylor

36.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

38.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

48.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler