Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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.

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Landers, Ann

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Devito, Danny

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Colton, Charles Caleb