Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

19.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

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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's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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 world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Seneca

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.