Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Homer

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Maltz, Maxwell

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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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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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Shain, Merle

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Maori

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Virgil

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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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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

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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Landers, Ann