Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Landers, Ann

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Virgil

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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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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.

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Brown, Les

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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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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