Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Gesser

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Devito, Danny

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

Talmud, The

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.